so totally not worth the bother or time wasted.

I don't enjoy being at odds with anyone, especially when it's completely pointless or it's with someone I've considered to be a friend. I typically only engage with people I like & find interesting and mostly ignore those whom I don't.

The only DNRs I've ever requested were against posters who simply refused to leave me be. If that didn't work, I'd simply leave the board so as to avoid them.

Honestly, I don't particularly care to attack, engage, or even think about those I don't care for, but for too long I reacted to dishonest personal attacks on me by a few of them who LIVE FOR attacking & smearing others. So, I fought back and got far too angry at them for their B.S. That is until I realized that I was LETTING them manipulate me into angry, vengeful behavior and having upset feelings I didnt want.

Obviously, there's been plenty of bad blood towards and outrageous lies tossed out against me by "you know who", but really, WHY should I bother with his pathetic need to dominate others and his incorrigible willingness to flat out lie about me to get others to turn against me because they believe it?

Most of those willing to believe his crap were folks I didn't even know or care about their opinions. However, mongo's LIES about me told to Ken C when he and I were arguing about what was allowed in The Back Alley REALLY infuriated me when Ken threw them at me and publicly trashed me on mongo's board just to "get me".

Ultimately, I blew up at Ken when he THEN posted about it on R&E asking posters to judge me for my positions on how to run MY board. That ended our long time friendship because of his willingness to believe mongo, say so publicly, AND his absolutely unreasonable demands that I follow his expectations for how to run my own board. I NEVER did that to him even when I vehemently disagreed with some of his choices because it was HIS board and HIS choice how to run it.

I'd helped him behind the scenes for YEARS by sending him every rule violation I saw by both friends and opponents because he was way too busy to look for violations and was being criticized for letting things he never saw go. If he disagreed that something I sent was bad, I accepted it and never squawked about it, because it was HIS board. He refused to give me the same respect. So, that was that. Now I very rarely look on either of his boards, especially lavender because he's let it become a sewer where certain posters routinely trash other posters, ruining the entire board with how prolific it is.